Quotes about Caspar David Friedrich

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A painting by Caspar David Friedrich is not a thing of the past. What is past is only the set of circumstances that allowed it to be painted.... it is therefore quite possible to paint like Caspar David Friedrich today.

Gerhard Richter

What I lack is the spiritual basis which under girded Romantic painting. We have lost the feeling of God's omnipresence in Nature. For us, everything is empty. Yet, these paintings [of a. o. Caspar David Friedrich] are still there. They still speak to us. We continue to love them, to use them, to have need of them.

Gerhard Richter